Modes of Autumn

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 631, 6 April 1929, Page 23

Modes of Autumn

The Vogue of Tweed

What are the outstanding points of autumn fashions? That’s the question of the day. Well, let’s begin- at the beginning. Morning clothes are more informal in material and gayer in colour. The i so-called “country” materials —tweeds, | woollens, wool stockinettes —are now far the smartest things for town wear, until after lunch at any rate. But they must be the new tweeds. None j of the old-fashioned, clumsy, half-an-inch thick materials in pepper-and-salt ; shades —leave those to the moors, where they have always belonged! Your town tweeds must be soft and | fine as regards material, with no pattern, but a broken-up surface made by intersecting threads of two different colours. Plain tweeds aren’t nearly as smart as these new mixtures of brown and red. brown and yellow, green and beige, or blue and grey, to give you at once the new r est colour combinations.

Your tweed coat should be either seven-eighths or full length, to be right up-to-the-minute. These are newer than the hip-length coat with Its accompanying skirt, and they are worn over either a one-piece dress of woollen material, or a skirt matching the coat and a jumper of different material but harmonising tone. A good and practical idea is to have one crepe de chine jumper and one of stockinette banded with tweed for each coat and skirt of this description. Here’s an important hint —let your jumper, whatever its material, pick out the brighter colour in the weave of the tweed, and let your hat match your jumper with the above-men-tioned tweeds —for instance, your jumpers and hats would be respectively red, yellow', green and blue. All jumpers should be belted nowadays with a matching oblong buckle in front at the waistline. With this tweed costume carry a handbag of the same leather as your shoes, and wear stock-

ings of a lighter shade and gloves to match them, and you'll look so perfectly right that your dearest friend couldn’t make a single suggestion to improve you! A Practical Outfit An alternative to this tweed outfit; is the “four-piece”—a fur-trimmed tweed overcoat and a cardigan suit of plain woollen material —which is shown in the sketch. This is a warm and useful outfit, and very practical in its hazelnut tones of light brown. Paristennes still wear their coats slung over the shoulders in this intriguing way; don’t ask me why they don’t have them made as capes in the first place! As regards afternoon clothes, a satin, crepe de chine or velvet frock under a fur-trimmed coat is the perfect outfit. Coats can be either straight or flaring; if you like flares, remember that the newest are onesided —you can see a good example in the cloth coat In the sketch, which has a collar, cuffs and flared front of matching astrakhan cloth, a very attractive new material. This is a very new and interesting model, and the last word as we know it at present about autumn coats. Important Cuffs Whatever your coat has, don’t forget it must have important-looking cuffs, if you want to stamp it as this year’3 model. Your afternoon frock should be flounced in some way—not a straight, but a diagonal flounce of some kind. All diagonal lines are good, whether on dresses or coats. Bows and buckles are used at the front of (is neck and waist, or the hip and shoulder —these buckles all seem to happen in pairs, and sometimes a little hat buckle makes a trio. Hats always match their accompanying frocks. Evening clothes have changed the least, so far. They still dip deliriously as to hemline, are very slim at the hips, and very low in the back, with a good deal of skirt or shoulder drapery. In fact, you mustn’t skimp your evening dress material anywhere but over your shoulder-blades, and there you really can economise!